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TAIPEI -- Fears of a maritime incident that could trigger a serious escalation of tensions are growing after two Chinese people died when their speedboat capsized last week in Taiwanese waters.
On Wednesday, the governor of Papua New Guinea’s Enga province, where the fighting occurred, asked lawmakers to call on Canberra to send in Australian Federal Police forces to help stem extreme tribal violence in the restive Highlands region.
The city state hosted regional headquarters for 4,200 multinational firms in 2023, extending its lead and dwarfing the 1,336 found in Hong Kong, its main rival, according to a Bloomberg Intelligence report that details Singapore’s rise in the perennial battle to be known as Asia’s premier business destination.
LONDON — Rolls-Royce shares jumped more than 8% on Thursday after the British aerospace group more than doubled its annual profits in 2023 and forecast further momentum this year.
NEW YORK (AP) — A leader of a Japan-based crime syndicate conspired to traffic uranium and plutonium from Myanmar in the belief that Iran would use it to make nuclear weapons, U.S. prosecutors alleged Wednesday.
US authorities said on Wednesday that they had charged a member of the Japanese yakuza criminal underworld with handling nuclear material sourced from Myanmar and seeking to sell it to fund an illicit arms deal.
LONDON -- Japan's Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance plans to roughly double its insurance underwriting capacity in the U.K. to 3 billion pounds ($3.78 billion) within five years, the company's chief told Nikkei in an interview.
TOKYO -- With Japan set to allow ride-hailing services on a limited basis from April, the country is cracking down on unauthorized operators who target foreign visitors accustomed to services like Uber.